Just phoned them up The civ 6 code comes with the game as well nothing about the battlefield 1 code though, This is the cheapest ive seen and ive been watching closely on these cards for a month.
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ShroomHeadToad
24 Nov 161#1
Nice find.
Conall122
24 Nov 16#2
does it come with the civ vi promotion?
JimBobJr to Conall122
24 Nov 16#4
Wouldn't bet on it but who knows, maybe
malachi
24 Nov 16#3
Only free delivery for certain members
JimBobJr to malachi
24 Nov 16#5
True but then again 20 posts on a forum (easily done in an hour) isn't hard work to save £11 or so
ShroomHeadToad
24 Nov 16#6
Use the cheapest "Collect from local shops" option £4.79.
mattyboy01
24 Nov 163#7
Just phoned them up The civ 6 code comes with the game as well nothing about the battlefield 1 code though, This is the cheapest ive seen and ive been watching closely on these cards for a month.
BetaRomeo
24 Nov 16#8
Includes Civ VI? Bargain! This is the price we've been waiting for since launch!
informant2014
24 Nov 16#9
Very good price for the card shame about delivery charges, and with it being AMD it will get better over time as they will eventually optimise drivers and find the true performance, whereas Nvidia put out optimised drivers straight away, so their cards can't really go much further.
mattyboy01 to informant2014
24 Nov 16#10
delivery is £5 local pickup, i got the insurance thing as well for extra £6.50, my order only came to £220 thats the best i've seen for this card, apart from the reference cards the 'blower fan' type :smiley: ill post back if it turns out to actually be a brick with a sticker on it :wink:
BetaRomeo to informant2014
25 Nov 16#51
No, no, no, that's not how optimisation works. It doesn't depend on the brand. It depends on the underlying architecture of the GPU, as well as the way games are constructed.
AMD used the same architecture from 2012 through to 2015, and, basically, it wasn't a great match for DX11 games (to put it simply, they eschewed stacking). That's why a 290 was soundly beaten by the 970 at launch, but this year they're roughly equal - they always had similar power under the hood, but it's taken years for AMD to work around its unsuitability for the way games were programmed.
The 480 also doesn't use stacking - so there isn't any further optimisation to be done there. Those optimisations are already done.
Finding the "true performance", as you quite accurately put it, still depends on the silicon itself. The R9 series was always running below its potential, until arguably this year. The RX series? Well, the 480 isn't a high-end card. It's always going to be limited by those 32 ROPs, fewer texture units and stream processors, and the underlying limits of the relatively poor memory compression.
Will we see the 8GB 480 catch up to the 6GB 1060? Well, there's probably even less room for improvement on the 1060 ("Maxwell die-shrink" is an overstatement, but not libelously inaccurate), but it remains to be seen if there's anything left to be wrung out of the 480's silicon.
eggmanpete
24 Nov 16#11
Where does it mention Civ 6 is included. Not all retailers are part of the Free Civ 6 promotion...
mattyboy01 to eggmanpete
24 Nov 16#17
i phoned them up to ask, the guy said on the phone it does come with it but lets see, Not BF1 though i think.
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AMD used the same architecture from 2012 through to 2015, and, basically, it wasn't a great match for DX11 games (to put it simply, they eschewed stacking). That's why a 290 was soundly beaten by the 970 at launch, but this year they're roughly equal - they always had similar power under the hood, but it's taken years for AMD to work around its unsuitability for the way games were programmed.
The 480 also doesn't use stacking - so there isn't any further optimisation to be done there. Those optimisations are already done.
Finding the "true performance", as you quite accurately put it, still depends on the silicon itself. The R9 series was always running below its potential, until arguably this year. The RX series? Well, the 480 isn't a high-end card. It's always going to be limited by those 32 ROPs, fewer texture units and stream processors, and the underlying limits of the relatively poor memory compression.
Will we see the 8GB 480 catch up to the 6GB 1060? Well, there's probably even less room for improvement on the 1060 ("Maxwell die-shrink" is an overstatement, but not libelously inaccurate), but it remains to be seen if there's anything left to be wrung out of the 480's silicon.